Jeßnitz (Anhalt)

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Jeßnitz (Anhalt)
Coat of arms of Jeßnitz (Anhalt)
Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 71 m
Area : 14.25 km²
Residents : 3249  (June 30, 2017)
Population density : 228 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 06800
Area code : 03494
town hall
town hall

Jeßnitz (Anhalt) is a district of the city of Raguhn-Jeßnitz . It is located north of Bitterfeld-Wolfen .

geography

Mulde rifle

Jeßnitz lies in a meadow landscape at the lower section of the Mulde and its tributary Fuhne , which flows here . The Düben Heath begins east of the city . The closest larger cities are directly neighboring Wolfen in the south, Dessau around 20 km north, Halle (Saale) around 30 km southeast and Leipzig around 35 km south.

history

St. Mary's Church
Powder booth and information board at the Fuhne

Origins

The name Jeßnitz is reliably mentioned for the first time in a Magdeburg document from October 17, 1259. According to tradition, the place is said to have been listed as early as 1156. The historic town center west of the Mulde probably emerged from a fishing settlement. Jeßnitz is mentioned as a city in 1401. The name of the town was Jezzant in 1265 , de Jezaniz in 1285 , Jessenitz in 1297 and Geßnitz in 1408 . The name is related to the Old High German word jesän and the Middle High German jesen (= ferment, boil up, foam), based on the Indo-European verbal stem * ıës- (= wallen, foam ). This probably describes the essence of the hollow . Later there was an adjustment to the "-itz" names of the area. Jeßnitz provides another name explanation for the word jesion (Slav.) For ash , as the settlement was located in the middle of the Slavic settlement area.

Early modern age

In 1408 Prince Albrecht VI. of Anhalt-Dessau the city as a Meißnisches fiefdom. In 1534, the reformer Prince Georg III. von Anhalt-Dessau introduced the Lutheran Reformation. In 1567 a large fire destroyed many houses in the city, including the town hall. In 1583, 1610-13 and 1632 the city was ravaged by the plague, which killed a large part of the population.

21st century

Former Catholic Church

The name was changed on April 16, 2002, when the city of Jeßnitz was renamed Jeßnitz (Anhalt) .

In August 2002, large parts of the city were flooded by the Elbe flood in 2002 , which also affected the Mulde . As a result, consideration was given to demolishing the Catholic St. Norbert Church, built in 1954. Instead, however, the church was converted into a venue.

On January 1, 2010, the previously independent cities of Jeßnitz (Anhalt) and Raguhn and the communities of Altjeßnitz , Marke , Retzau , Schierau , Thurland and Tornau in front of the Heide merged to form the city of Raguhn-Jeßnitz. At the same time, the Raguhn administrative community , to which Jeßnitz (Anhalt) had belonged since January 1, 2005, was dissolved.

Incorporations

Population development

year Residents
1787 1,531
1871 3,616
1927 6.313
1947 12,098
year Residents
1970 6,952
1990 4,239
2000 3,876
2005 ¹ 3,745

¹ June 30th

politics

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the Dessau Regional Council on May 31, 1994 and registered in the Magdeburg State Archives under the coat of arms roll number 25/1994.

Blazon : "Two jointed red towers with domed roofs, growing in silver from a blue corrugated shield base, each with a ball with a cone, floating between the towers a red spindle and a red ball of thread in piles."

The city colors show red and white.

The coat of arms comes from an old city seal from the 17th century. The two towers in the coat of arms do not symbolize the city gate, but are derived from the church with two towers (collapsed in 1596). Spindles and balls of yarn symbolize cloth-making, which used to be the main occupation of the city.

flag

The flag was approved on June 22nd, 2000 by the Dessau Regional Council.

The flag is striped red and white. The city coat of arms is placed in the middle of the flag.

Partnerships

Culture and sights

Salegast monastery ruins
Forester's house
  • Salegast monastery ruins in the Salegaster Forest nature reserve south of the village (450 hectares of alluvial forest )
  • Evangelical St. Mary's Church
  • Powder house from the 18th century, presumably for storing gunpowder to protect the trough bridges by breaking ice
  • Forester's lodge Salegast
  • Converted water tower

traffic

Station building

The Trebnitz – Leipzig railway runs past the western edge of Jeßnitz . Jeßnitz has a breakpoint at this point . The associated reception building from 1857 is to be demolished at the end of the community.

memorial

  • Memorial from 1952 on the old cemetery , since 1956 moved to August-Bebel-Strasse (today Leopoldstrasse), in memory of the fighters against fascism

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

  • Hermann Conradi (* 1862; † 1890), writer of early naturalism
  • Paul Baege (* 1876; † 1928), teacher, author and local poet from Anhalt
  • Otto Körting (* 1884; † 1959), social democratic politician
  • Otto Ernst Hesse (* 1891; † 1946), playwright and publicist
  • Hans Linde (1913–1993), sociologist
  • Barry Graves (* 1942; † 1994), actually Jürgen Deutschmann , journalist and radio presenter a. a. at RIAS Berlin
  • Paul Kersten (* 1949), soccer player
  • Uwe Weller (* 1958), soccer player
  • Christian Gille (* 1976), canoe racer , Olympic champion in Athens 2004, spent his childhood in Jeßnitz and started his sporting career in the local canoe club

Web links

Commons : Jeßnitz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Schönfelder: Bitterfeld and the lower Mulde valley. A regional survey in the Bitterfeld, Wolfen, Jessnitz (Anhalt), Raguhn, Graefenhainichen and Brehna area. , Volume 66 of Landscapes in Germany. Values ​​of the German homeland. Verlag Böhlau, 2004, ISBN 3-412-03803-2 , page 145 ( excerpt )
  2. ↑ Inge Bily: Place Name Book Des Mittelelbegebietes Akademie Verlag , 1996, ISBN 978-3-05-002505-6 , page 93 ( excerpt )
  3. ↑ Timeline of the history of the city of Jeßnitz . Official website of the former city of Jeßnitz (Anhalt). Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
  5. ↑ http://www.bistum-magdeburg.de/front_content.php?idcat=1472&idart=3490&lang=5
  6. ↑ The entrepreneur turned Jeßnitz church into a disco
  7. ↑ Official Journal for the administrative region of Dessau 8/94
  8. ^ Heimatverein Jeßnitz (Anhalt) eV
  9. ↑ Railway stations in Saxony-Anhalt . In: Bahn-Report . No. 6 , 2018, p. 45 .